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This Sunday, January 10th, the Secretary-General will begin a virtual visit to the UK to mark the 75th anniversary of the first Session of the UN General Assembly, which took place in London’s Central Hall in Westminster.
In relation to that, tomorrow, the guest at the noon briefing will be Fabrizio Hochschild, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Preparations for #UN75. He will brief reporters virtually on the commemoration event scheduled on Sunday, as well as on the UN75 final report.
Martin Griffiths, the Special Envoy for Yemen has just concluded today a visit to Aden, which included meetings with the Yemeni Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, members of the Cabinet, as well as the Governor of Aden.
In the Central African Republic, the peacekeeping mission has increased its patrols in Bossangoa, in the Ouham prefecture, after two Anti-Balaka factions clashed yesterday over the issue of tax collection.
An update on Ethiopia from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the findings of the two joint Government-inter-agencies’ needs assessment missions that deployed in Tigray late last year, on December 20th. Life in Alamata, Mehoni and Mekelle is gradually returning to normal, but food supplies are very limited, and only locally produced food items are available and at increasing prices.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Secretary-General said in a statement that he is shocked by the massacre of civilians, during recent attacks attributed to the ADF in the villages of Tingwe, Mwenda and Nzenga, near Beni territory in the province of North Kivu.
The Food and Agriculture Organization today said that world food prices rose for the seventh consecutive month in December.
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